The Desert at Dusk

This poetry by a prominent Tunisian writer is, in part, an exile's nostalgic evocation of his birthplace and childhood. In both form and content it suggests the Arabic of pre-Islamic poetry. It is a re-imagining of a particular form-the ancient odes to the desert. Along with this it is something very new: imagery, muscular and bright, that indicts radical, violent Islamists. Their perversion of Islam is reflected in the image of a sullied and suffering desert-the desert at dusk. Bilingual French-English edition.

Author: Tahar Bekri
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Contra Mundum Press
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.31d
ISBN: 9781940625782